"The success of this occupation can only be judged fifty years from now. If the Germans
at that time have a stable, prosperous democracy, then we shall have succeeded".
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945
Cold War Terms: Capitalism, Communism Nuclear Arms Race, The Iron Curtain, Berlin Airlift, The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Containment, NATO & Warsaw Pact, McCarthyism, Sputnik, Satellite nations, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
NATO Countries Vs. Warsaw Pact Countries
Early NATO countries: US, Canada, UK, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, W. Germany, Spain, Turkey
Original Warsaw Pact Countries: USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East. Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania
Click below to see an animated map of Europe during the Cold War Cold War Map
Winston Churchill photo google images "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".
Winston Churchill- 1946 speech at Westminster College in MO.
"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
Winston Churchill-1947 speech "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear".
President Harry Truman- 1950 (Special message to Congress about dealing with communism)
and "The Buck Stops Here" see the actual sign that sat on President Truman's desk here Desk Sign
President Harry S. Truman
Executive order 9981 is signed in the summer of 1948 ending desegregation in the military after a long fight about the issue within the Democratic Party.
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
More on the desegregation of the US Military here Executive Order 9981
Go here to read a great article explaining the desegregation of the US military. http://www.majorcox.com/columns/truman.htm
After reading the article, please answer these questions:
1. When was the US military desegregated?
2. Who was the President?
3. What "executive order" was it?
4. How did some Democrats respond?
Communism (USSR)- System in which all property and resources are collectively owned by a “classless” society and not by individual citizens based on philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Socialism is a less intense form of communism.
Capitalism (US)- Economic system based on private ownership of (capital, land, labor) employed for the purpose of making profits. It is the oldest and most common of all economic systems also known as the “free market system”.
Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)
"In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics you never know". "A people that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both".
President Eisenhower
See the notes on "Ike" here:
The Civil Rights Movement:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Castro newsclip
"If in doubt...kill him" Che Guevara "Cuban boat people" photo taken by Alexa Hoffmann
Kennedy Vs. Nixon. The first televised presidential debate.
"It was the TV more than anything that turned the tide"
Said by President Kennedy four days after winning the presdential election. map found on thinkquest.
"The success of this occupation can only be judged fifty years from now. If the Germans
at that time have a stable, prosperous democracy, then we shall have succeeded".
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945
Cold War Terms:
Capitalism, Communism Nuclear Arms Race, The Iron Curtain, Berlin Airlift, The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Containment, NATO & Warsaw Pact, McCarthyism, Sputnik, Satellite nations, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
NATO Countries Vs. Warsaw Pact Countries
Early NATO countries: US, Canada, UK, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, W. Germany, Spain, Turkey
Original Warsaw Pact Countries: USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East. Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania
Click below to see an animated map of Europe during the Cold War
Cold War Map
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain
has descended across the Continent".
Winston Churchill- 1946 speech at Westminster College in MO.
"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
Winston Churchill-1947 speech
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition,
it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures,
until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone
lives in fear".
President Harry Truman- 1950 (Special message to Congress about dealing with communism)
and
"The Buck Stops Here" see the actual sign that sat on President Truman's desk here Desk Sign
President Harry S. Truman
Executive order 9981 is signed in the summer of 1948 ending desegregation in the military after a long fight about the issue within the Democratic Party.
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
More on the desegregation of the US Military here Executive Order 9981
Go here to read a great article explaining the desegregation of the US military.
http://www.majorcox.com/columns/truman.htm
After reading the article, please answer these questions:
1. When was the US military desegregated?
2. Who was the President?
3. What "executive order" was it?
4. How did some Democrats respond?
Communism (USSR)- System in which all property and resources are collectively owned by a “classless” society and not by individual citizens based on philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Socialism is a less intense form of communism.
Capitalism (US)- Economic system based on private ownership of (capital, land, labor) employed for the purpose of making profits. It is the oldest and most common of all economic systems also known as the “free market system”.
East and West Germany and Berlin (East and West) after WW2
http://tylerde2011.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/saturday-18-6-11-former-german-german-border/
History of the U.N.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Read about the famous "Candy bomber" also known as "Uncle Wiggily Wings" here Operation Little Vittles
"Reds", Hollywood and Senator McCarthy
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics you never know".
"A people that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both".
President Eisenhower
See the notes on "Ike" here:
Race to Space
Operation Castle on the Bikini Atoll Atomic Tests
Fallout:
Brief notes on Korea
Mr. Johnson's dad on the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea circa 1953
He was a radar man in Grumman AD4W aircraft seen below.
1950s Pop Culture
Levittown information about "Levittowners"
The Civil Rights Movement:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Castro newsclip
Kennedy Vs. Nixon. The first televised presidential debate.
"It was the TV more than anything that turned the tide"
Said by President Kennedy four days after winning the presdential election.
Thirteen Days
Go here to read the important facts on Presidents Kennedy and Johnson:
Eyewitness to President Kennedy's assassination
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Map of the Vietnam War:
Vietnam
1960s music
Bob Hope and the Troops!
July 20th, 1969 the United States is the first and only country (so far) to land humans on the Moon!
http://www.history.com/content/space/history/apollo-11
Construction for the Berlin Wall begins August 15, 1961
Great introduction to the Berlin Wall:
"Walled In"-Great animated documentary about the Berlin Wall:
Photo of the Berlin Wall in the west. Notice the graffiti.
The Berlin Wall
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/